“We cannot escape our history.”
-President Abraham Lincoln
I am from Asaba, an Igbo town in Delta State. I was only four years old when the Biafran war began. Although we were living in our hometown then, I was born in Funtua, present Katsina State. My father was a businessman in the town, running a chain of petrol-filling stations. It was the massacre of Igbos and other easterners in May and September 1966 that forced my father to gather his young family together and flee back to Asaba, abandoning his business and all his property. He had to begin life all over again.
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